Topic: This workshop will discuss the use of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to create engaging learning environments.
Population: Higher Education Faculty Members
Outcomes- Upon completion of this workshop participants will be able to:
Understand and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each Social Media tool as active learning environments for Professional-Technical and Academic Disciplines
Understand and discuss the security, privacy, and legal ramifications of the use of these tools in higher education environments.
Discuss and Define the uses of these Social Media tools in Inquiry and Problem-Solving Based learning approaches
Create Professional Profiles for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
Create Facebook Pages and Groups that will:
Provide communication of course requirements through Facebook Notes
Provide student response and informal quizzing
Engage students in discussions
Encourage Students to link to external websites as part of class discussions
Add Apps to Facebook Pages
Use Twitter as a Student Response System
Create a LinkedIn Discussion Group
Create a LinkedIn Profile that models:
A resume/CV
Professional Portfolio Development
Networking with Professional contacts
Gap: Participants may be familiar with using any of these tools as personal tools and may have thought about using them in class but want to explore the technical and pedagogical use of these tools. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to use one or more of these tools to enhance their courses with pedagogically sound learning principles.
Module 2
1. Authentic Assessment Activity -
The authentic assessment the students will participate in will be the creation of a Facebook Page. Although the entire course uses LinkedIn and Twitter, Facebook as a tool provides transferrable skills applicable to the other tools. Activity: Create a Facebook Page for a real or imagined class that includes student assignments/syllabus, discussion questions, student response questions, and links to other resources on the web.
2. Presentation -
In this workshop the presentation will be real time interactive presentation. If there are problems with Internet access the fallback would be a PowerPoint presentation with narrated video capture of key elements (This PowerPoint will be what is created for the purpose of this class.)
3. Graphic Organizer -
In this workshop I will use a fake Facebook Page to allow students to plan what they would put on a facebook page before logging in. Faux Facebook Profile
4. Pre-Training -
The pre-training for this workshop will include an Ice-Breaker, a short PowerPoint directed discussion on the merits of Social Media as a Learning Environment, and an Activity.
The Ice-Breaker will consist of Small Index Cards in which the attendees are to introduce themselves in 140 characters or less. They will then pass the cards around until they have read each others cards.
The Activity will be a crayon and paper creation of an "online" profile. This will help students unfamiliar with Social Media the chance to understand the terms used.
Module 1
Module 2
1. Authentic Assessment Activity -
The authentic assessment the students will participate in will be the creation of a Facebook Page. Although the entire course uses LinkedIn and Twitter, Facebook as a tool provides transferrable skills applicable to the other tools.Activity: Create a Facebook Page for a real or imagined class that includes student assignments/syllabus, discussion questions, student response questions, and links to other resources on the web.
2. Presentation -
In this workshop the presentation will be real time interactive presentation. If there are problems with Internet access the fallback would be a PowerPoint presentation with narrated video capture of key elements (This PowerPoint will be what is created for the purpose of this class.)3. Graphic Organizer -
In this workshop I will use a fake Facebook Page to allow students to plan what they would put on a facebook page before logging in. Faux Facebook Profile4. Pre-Training -
The pre-training for this workshop will include an Ice-Breaker, a short PowerPoint directed discussion on the merits of Social Media as a Learning Environment, and an Activity.The Ice-Breaker will consist of Small Index Cards in which the attendees are to introduce themselves in 140 characters or less. They will then pass the cards around until they have read each others cards.
The Activity will be a crayon and paper creation of an "online" profile. This will help students unfamiliar with Social Media the chance to understand the terms used.